 In last month's issue of the Mint Rubbing Journal we introduced the concept of the mint rubbing revolution. In the revolutionary times we live in it is necessary to have a movement that we can all embrace and bring to the attention of the world. A famous philosopher once said "the twenty-first century will be a century of mintrubbing or it will not be at all". We cannot agree more. Mint Rubbing is a spiritual movement that is gradually being embraced by all peoples of the world. Thus we, here at the Association, have a great responsibility: to provide the most up-to-date, useful and interesting information on mint rubbing for the benefit of all mankind. It's not as easy as you might think. Each night we go to sleep with only one thought in mind: what more can we do for the benefit and the advancement of the mintrubbing community? Well, we do have number of projects under development. Let us discuss them briefly without spoiling the surprise. First, let us say that there's a lot of cool stuff in the works for future issues of the Mint Rubbing Journal. There will be a lot of special issues and special projects in the months to come. We can't give any more details because that would ruin the surprise, but suffice it to say that there will be plenty of humor and fun stuff, some serious projects filled with informative stuff, some strangeness and at times pure madness. All of this is coming in the following months, so stay tuned. At the moment we can only disclose details about one of these projects: we're preparing something really big for the Romanian general elections at the end of the year (local elections will not be covered). There are a number of different ideas being discussed, but several things are clear: we will have a huge special project which will be launched two or three months before the election date; while the project will provide plenty of entertainment, the main focus will be to provide accurate and detailed information on the elections and political parties with their leaders and "accomplishments". Finally, this particular project will be in Romanian and will feature more frequent updates than the MRJ. We've been led by mediocre people for far too long. Something needs to be done. While it's not in our power to trigger dramatic change in a short period of time, we will try to provide all the necessary information so that we can all get a clearer picture of Romanian politics and all that stuff. The people that were elected to lead the country have treated us like garbage for 14 years; for three months we'll treat them far worse on this site. And we'll do it with style and hard facts. Overall we're pretty excited about this project and can't wait to get it started. If you're a hardcore mintrubber, don't worry though. We're also working hard on some quality mint rubbing stuff and even a little more than that. Can't say more though. Besides content updates and special MRJ issues, we're also working on some other projects that will benefit the mint rubbing community. Keep an eye on this site for some neat stuff in the months to come and consider subscribing to the journal. Finally, there have been some changes to the main mintrubbing.org site as well. Let's discuss them briefly. Last month we added the complete list of sites linking to us in the "Link to Us" section (the exact link can also be found here); this page will be updated monthly. We have also revised the "cool links" section and got rid of some broken links, and rearranged the Mint Rubbing Journal Archive. This month we introduced a new section on the main site - you can also use this link - which includes the complete list of Ancient Romanian Wisdom published in the Journal (this section will also be updated monthly). We have also included the new batch of RMRA banners in the Link to Us section - if you haven't grabbed one do it now. To conclude - there is exciting stuff happening here at mintrubbing.org as usual. We're working hard (ok, we're actually rubbing hard) to provide you with quality informative and/or entertaining material. Still, our goal remains the same: to take over the world for the benefit of all mintrubbers. It will happen soon. |
